—1 Month Later—
Growling as I slowly gained clarity and consciousness, feeling my new evolved body I saw my surroundings for the first time in a while.
It was a sight to behold too.
I lay in the centre of what must have been a burrowed in cave with no entrance or exit, and all around me lay the dozens of spines and dried up blood that was left of my siblings.
Not paying that any mind I finally started looking over myself and what I saw was surprising.
I had grown legs that more so looked like dragons with how meaty and beefy they were and with the black obsidian claws that ended them I was pleased.
My hands which looked more like a streamlined version of the legs but instead of the animalistic claws I had a more humanoid arms with fingers that held the very same black obsidian claws as my legs.
My body seemed almost like a lizards now that I looked over it completed by a long tail to boot.
I couldn't see my face but I was sure that it was just as terrifying as I even felt horns on my head.
[You've gained skill— All-Eater: A skill that allows the host to eat anything and absorb the essence inside it.]
[You've gained skill— Essence Channeling: A skill that allows the host the ability to Channel essence inside his body to strengthen himself for a time.]
[—Note: Think Skill Status to view your skills.]
' Huh? I had a skills status?' I thought with confusion before a screen suddenly popped up.
[—Skills.
—Analyse DNA
—Burrow
—Arcana Bite
—Bio-Storage
—All-Eater
—Essence Channeling–]
Clicking on each of them I realised that their descriptions were almost the same as my skill list description but the evolution system didn't have the feature to increase mastery over them but by just experimenting yourself.
So with nothing more to do I first opened up my Skill List wanting to master a few skills so I could get better attacking power.
—{Skill List}—
—Skill Points: 46
~Analyse DNA—[1/10]: Allows host to eat anything with DNA and gain it's understanding and if possible gain an evolution route from it.
~Burrow—[2/10]: Allows the host to burrow through the very earth for hiding or maneuvering through earthly substances.
~Arcana Bite—[1/10]: Infusing your teeth and muscles you achieve a devastating biting force infused with the energies that you choose.
~Bio-Storage—[1/10]: Allows the host the ability to store an excessive amount of bio-mass for later use in evolution or other uses.[0/100,000]
~All-Eater—[1/10}A skill that allows the host to eat anything and absorb the essence inside it.
~Essence Channeling—[1/10]A skill that allows the host the ability to Channel essence inside his body to strengthen himself for a time.
—{}—
Looking over my skills I noticed that burrow, the skill that I had added a single point in had also gained a more wider description, it was probably due to me adding the one point in it.
And then Bio-Storage now could store 100,000 bio-mass instead of 10,000 which I could attribute to my evolution.
But other then the new additions of my two skills there was nothing else of note, so I began adding my skill points.
Firstly I added 9 SP to Analyse DNA as I wanted to see what the changes would be and if I could gain better benefits.
—{Analyse DNA is Maxed}—
—{Analyse DNA is evolving....searching for evolution routes.}—
—{Analyse DNA has evolved into — DNA Refining: A skill that allows the host to devour the DNA of others and allow the creation of a unique evolution route for them by Fusing 3 already Absorbed DNA strands.}—
' Oh? So some evolutions wouldn't give me options to chose from.' I thought looking over my new skill.
' This....changes everything.' I thought with a sudden glint in my eyes, I could possibly hunt the strongest of creatures and use their DNA to create an evolution route for myself.
' I'm definitely gonna hunt for a dragon....' I thought already making plans on what creature I wanted to create.
But getting off my excitement I decided to move on and seeing my 37 Skill Points I decided to use them on the next skill I wanted to evolve.
Using 8 SP I maxed out [Burrow]
—{Burrow has Maxed out}—
—{Burrow is evolving...searching for evolution routes.}—
—{Burrow has evolved into— Rapid Tunneling: A skill that allows the host the ability to dig at an accelerated rate allowing them to traverse the earth's at increased speeds then they could above ground.}—
' Great a traversal type skill and it's a great one too as it incorporates stealth...' I thought already absorbing and assimilating the knowledge that came with my skills leveling up.
Next was [Arcana Bite].
—{Arcana Bite has Maxed out}—
—{Arcana Bite is evolving....searching for evolution routes.}—
—{Arcana Bite has evolved into— Essence Bite: A skill that allows the user to use essence stored up to deliver devastating bites of pure force and allows with each bite to disrupt the essence of others internally.}—
' Oh?...did I gain this skill evolution due to [All-Eater]' I asked myself seeing as it was the only explanation I could deduct.
Now left with 20 SP and Two more skills I began and leveled up [All-Eater]
—{All-Eater has Maxed out}—
—{ All-Eater is evolving....searching for evolution route.}—
—{ All-Eater has evolved into— Devouring Heart: A skill that allows the host to eat anything and break it down into essence of the nature of the 'thing' devoured and store it in a infinite space only accessible to the host, has a chance to give out benefits depending on what is eaten. }—
This one I took an interest in, especially the last lines of the skill.
Vague descriptions like those always tended to bring surprising results.
But stopping myself from immediately using the skill immediately I maxed out my last skill.
—{ Essence Channelling has Maxed out}—
—{Essence Channelling is evolving....searching for evolution routes...choose a suitable evolution.}—
—{Essence Channeling Evolution.
—Essence Strengthening: Allows the host to use essence stored up to gain boosts in power depending on what essence is used to strengthen the host.
—Essence Cultivation: Allows the host the ability to use essence to cultivate his body, soul and mind to strengthen them further and further with the use of compatible essence.}—
I didn't even have to consider with this one, I chose the second evolution.
Cultivation was op anywhere you went, unless everyone was gods, then you are fucked.
So as I sat there processing all the information that came with the skill I smiled understanding how it worked.
By absorbing essence I could then use that essence to cultivate and strengthen 'permanently' a certain part of my being.
But I couldn't just take a random essence like water essence and cultivate my skin as that would be a bad mix which would result in my skin becoming soft and weak.
But if I used items of earth related essence like Metal then my skin would grow stronger and durable mimicking the essence of what is used to cultivate it.
This worked for everything in my being too.
And with [Devouring Heart] I could stockpile a bunch of different essences and use them in one bout gaining more power in the process.